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"PerShi'ism" has always been the main source of confusion amongst I-Ranians!!!
Haven't they already? My sources tell me Dr. Naderi is a regular member of OC mosque where he engages in Ashura ritual of chest beating and serving khoresht Ghayeme.
DK
But are you seriously expecting something different?
Shia ideology as wacky as is is a creation of Iranian people, post Arab invasion to preserve what’s left of Iranian culture and identity by putting a wedge between us and them. Even if you give it up somehow magically, it has to be replaced with something else because there is no such a thing as an atheist country or even a true secular society on the face of the earth (I think soviets tried that for 70 years to be secular and athiest and in the end all backfired on them!) Today Christian orthodoxy is part of new resurrection of Russian nationalism. I am afraid we are stuck with Shia stuff for some time to come; the best we can do is try to reform it, modernize it and push it back to mosques where it belongs.
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Do not to be mistake the above by the mumbo jumbo reformist stuff that comes out of IRI!!!
Being stuck with religion as a whole is part of human history and more importantly, human nature. Humans are weak species who need to have a reason for their existence on this rock.
The trick is NOT to allow it to take every thing over regardless of what the brain-washing mechanism (man-made diety, etc.) in use!
Unfortunately, as much as it is believed, education is not the savior of those who choose to believe religious nonsense. I know a lot of so called educated folks whose brain is filled with this kind of crap; they call it faith.
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